Clutch mechanism.



."PA E ED FEB. 20, 1906.

J. H-- B. BRYAN, CLUTCH MECHANISM. APPLIQATIION FILED JAN. 21 1964.

W11 855 as UNITED JOHN H. e. BRYAN, or BUFFALO, NEW roan, ASSlGNOR re NI Es BEMENT-POND COMPANY, or JERSEY cirr, N W JERSEY.

CLUTCH MECHANISM.

$0,812.81? V Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb. 20, 1906.

Application filed January 21,1904. Serial No; 190,042-

wheel to turn rreely through certain angles 55 notwithstanding the presence in 6; 9, a lug projecting inwardly from the wa l of this recess and adapted to engage lug 6 when the main wheel has been turned upon the main nut through a certain distance; 10,, a keeper- 6o nut upon the outer end of the main nut to retain the hand wheel against endwise displacement from the mainnut, the hub of the hand-wheel engaging between this keepernut and a collar on the inner end of the main 6 nut; 11, a clutch-face upon the inner end of the hub of the hand-wheel; 12, a sleeve sliding on the outer end of the shaft; 13, a clutchr In all/ whom it may concern: r Be it knownthat 1, JOHN H. BBRYAN, a I citizen ofthe United States, residing at Buffalo, Erie county, New York, (post-office ad 5 dress, Buffalo, New York,) have invented certain new and. useful Improvements in Clutch Mechanism, of whichthe following is a. specification. y

' This invention, v'liile adapted for numen io vous uses, has been designed with'special reference to the feed mechanism of drilling-machines in which a feed-shaft is to be turned sometimes by hand and sometimes by power, the invention directing itself to the system :5 for the clutching of the hand and power deface on the inner end of this sleeve adapte vices alternatively to thefeed-shaft. to cooperate with the clutch-face on the hub 70 The invention will be readily understood -of the handheel; 14, a lug projecting from from the following description, taken in conthe shaft into and free to turn in an annular 'nection with the accompanying drawings, in recess in sleeve 12 when the sleeve is in endwhichi wise position corresponding withthe disen- Figure ,l-is a vertical longitudinal section of a clutch mechanism exemplifying my in,- vention;. Fig;,2-, a vertical transverse section in the plane of linen of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a'ver- 2 5 tical transverse section in the plane of line, b

of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 a vertical transverse sec,- tion in the plane of line 0 of Fig. 1.

In the dnawingsyl indicates a shaft say the feed-shaft of. a drilling-machine to be turned alternativelyby hand orby power; Z',a inion fast thereon and serving-as means by which the shaft may transmit motion to other machine parts; 3, aworm-gear loose on the age the mam nut may be screwed up and the h D hand-wheel; 15, a notch in the outer wall of the sleeve-recess just referred to adapted to receive lug 14 when clutch-faces 1'1 and 13 are engage 16, a spring on the'shaft within sleeve 12 tending to ur e the sleeve inwardly 80 so as to engage the c utch-faces, and 17 a collar on the outer end of theshaft to serve asan abutment for the spring; With the parts in the position seen in Fig. 1 the hand-wheel is free to turn independent 85 of the shaft and of the main nut except as I lugs 6 and 9 engage. By turning the handshaftand constituting the element through wheel in the proper direction till the lugs enwhich motion may be transmitted by mai g chine power to the shaft when it is to be friction tightened and the powenfeed set to 90 driven by power as distinguished from hand, i work. If the friction should slip and the this gear forming also one element of a frichand prove too weak to set it up with suffition-clutch; '4, a hub'splined upon the shaft cient tightness by ordinary turning of the 40 and en aging-worm-gear 3 and forming the 1 hand-wheel, then the hand wheel may be other element of the friction clutch; 5, a turned back and quickly advanced, so as to 5 main nut screwed upon the shaft and servingq screw up the nut with an impactive action of I as a means by which the two members of the the lugs and, similarly, in unscrewing the ,friction-clutc are forced into active engagemain nut to release the friction. Such is the i operation-of the device as regards the use of ment, the friction-clutch being engaged or released by screwing or unscrewing this nut, the the frictioinclutch, i exterior of thenutbeing generally cylindrical; In the position shown in Fig. 1 the sleeve 6, a lug projecting from the periphery of the is held to outward idle position by lug 14. If main nut; 7 a hand-wheel having its hub the shaft is to be turned by hand, as in the journaled upon the main nut, this-handhand-feeding of a machine, then the sleeve wheel constituting the agent for turning the 12 is to be-turned till notch 15 rests with lug shaft or the main nut alternatively; 8, an an 14, whereupon the spring forces the sleeve inwardly and causes cluu-lvfaces 11 and 13 to engage, thus locking the hand wheel KOO nular recess within the bore of the hub of tho hand-wheel, of a size to permit. the handa ement of its clutch-face from that of the 7'5 against-rotation on the shaft, it bein stood that beforethis is done the iolutch is released. When the handclutch is to be released, the sleeve is- 5 outwardly, so as" to release the clutc then turned till-lug 14 will lock the sleeve in idleposition.

I olaim as my invention- 1.'In a clutch unaerlotion-v [10 tion, substantially as set forth of a shaft, a

' power-tran'snnttmg memberloose thereon, a 'otion.clutch for coupling said loose memher to the shaft, a nut threaded upon the shaft forsetting the iotion-clutch to active 'heel mounted on the nut,

A and also for operating the frictioneiutch to lock the power-transmitting memn ear, to the shaft.

in a clutch mechanism, the combination, substantially as set forth,-of a shaft, a.

provided with a'lug, 0 the nut and journaled loosely on the nut an provided with a lug to cooperate with the rst-mentioned lug in limiting the rotation of the hand-wheel and the nut, said andwheel being 5 member, a sl justment on provided also with and power transmitting member by.

I of the hand wheel, and a lug to prevent rotation of thesleeve upon the shaft when the sleeve is clutched to the hand-Wheel.

utch mechanism,

lug to cooperate with the st-mentioned lug in limitin rotation of the hand wheel an hand-wheel'being provided also with' a clutch memb h an inwardly-facing notch, .a.lug projecting from the shaft and engaging'an-inner portion of the sleeve and preventing its inward coincides with said note v In a clutch mechanism, the combination, substantially as set forth, of a shaft, two cooperating frictionclutch members thereon to engage by relative endwisemove- I ment of said members, a 'nut threaded on the motion relative arranged to clutch the hand-Wheel haft when the fir tioned clutch members are disengaged, whereby the hand-wh'eel may serve, alternatively inactuating the first-ment10ned clutch or in the shaft directly.

JOH H. B BRYAN.

Witnesses; I

FRANK S. COATES. C. 'C, BROOK.

ft for producing such endwise-movement,

pair of c0"perating clutch st-menthe relative the nut, said.

movement'exceptwhen eomcidmgwith said 

